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| Demonic Toys The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack composed by Richard Band Liner Notes Composer of the Unknown Richard Band has spent much of his career in the company of devil dolls, ominous aliens and monsters from the fourth dimension. His suspenseful themes and synthesizer shocks have given evil a melodic face, a talent for unholy rhythms that has made Band one of the genre's foremost composers with scores like "Re-Animator", "From Beyond" and "The Pit And The Pendulum". Born in 1953 to director Albert Band ("I Bury The Living"), Richard and his brother Charles were fated to explore the cinema's most twisted paths. A self-taught guitarist, Richard toured Europe with a rock band at the age of 13, before co-composing (with Joel Goldsmith) his first score for 1978's "Laserblast". Band would be consumed by the bizarre worlds that his brother's imagination produced; his grasp of uncanny tunes growing from computerized music to composing "Metalstorm" for an 80-piece orchestra. As he brought musical flesh to impish "Troll" and "Ghost Warrior's" reborn Samurai, Band tured the London Symphony and Rome Philharmonic into graveyard orchestras, his twisted take on Bernard Herrmann bringing him cult acclaim with "Re-Animator". Band's fiendish collaboration with director Stuart Gordon continued with "From Beyond", "Dolls" and The Pit And The Pendulum", the composer's further taste of Lovecraftian menace on "The Resurrected" developing a mutant musical style., Richard Band is in equally good company with vicious dolls. As with his scores for the "Puppet Master" films, "Demonic Toys" shows Band's fondness for demented childhood melodies, his music announcing the approach of playthings from Hell. But unlike his lush orchestrations for Andre Toulon's puppets, Band's "Demonic" score rips apart those instruments into mocking xylophones, electronics and drums, his bloodthirsty teddy bears and jack-in-the-boxes ready to pounce. Their attacks are accompanied by Band, his shrill themes speeding from one kill to the next with a ghoulish laugh. As Richard Band continues to explore the unknown with "The Arrival", "Crash and Burn" and "Bride of Re-Animator", his grasp for the supernatural's most hypnotic melodies seize our imaginations. "Doctor Mordrid" and "Demonic Toys" are further proof that Band has tapped into the music of the beyond. -Daniel Schweiger Track List 13. Demonic Toys (2:07) 14. Evil's Building Blocks (1:23) 15. The Warehouse (2:06) 16. Fresh Meat (4:15) 17. The Toys Are Alive (8:31) 18. Play With Us (2:37) 19. The Final Game (11:31) Total Running Time 32:30 |